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The fun way to research your family history Genealogy For Dummies, 8th Edition covers everything you need to know about starting a genealogical research project—including where and how to find information, how to communicate with other online genealogists, how to leverage social networking sites and apps, how to add digital images to your family tree, and how to build your own site for sharing information. It also explains the use of compiled genealogies, U.S. Census information, and public access catalogs. Brand new to this edition is content on how to conduct genealogical research on the road, and on how to take this research and integrate it into the data found at home. It also contains new information on DNA research and testing, new geocoding applications to record geographic data into a genealogical database, and other new technologies. The book covers which apps are worth your money, and how to get the most out of them. Use the latest tools to research family history Create your own site to showcase your family tree, digital images, and compiled genealogies Get access to free versions of Legacy Family Tree and Personal Ancestral Files Utilize both online and offline research techniques and tools Follow the clues to uncover your family's legacy—and have fun along the way!

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Grasp the rich culture and language of the Deaf community To see people use American Sign Language (ASL) to share ideas is remarkable and fascinating to watch. Now, you have a chance to enter the wonderful world of sign language. American Sign Language For Dummies offers you an easy-to-access introduction so you can get your hands wet with ASL, whether you're new to the language or looking for a great refresher. Used predominantly in the United States, ASL provides the Deaf community with the ability to acquire and develop language and communication skills by utilizing facial expressions and body movements to convey and process linguistic information. With American Sign Language For Dummies, the complex visual-spatial and linguistic principles that form the basis for ASL are broken down, making this a great resource for friends, colleagues, students, education personnel, and parents of Deaf children. Grasp the various ways ASL is communicated Get up to speed on the latest technological advancements assisting the Deaf Understand how cultural background and regionalism can affect communication Practice signing with videos online If you want to get acquainted with Deaf culture and understand what it's like to be part of a special community with a unique shared and celebrated history and language, American Sign Language For Dummies gets you up to speed on ASL fast.

Learn best practices from the most trusted name in business and financial reporting The Bloomberg Way is the journalist's guide to covering business, finance and the economy, with authoritative guidance from the editor-in-chief and senior editors of Bloomberg. As the lines between objectivity and opinion become increasingly blurred, the new edition of the Bloomberg Way shows you how to be the first to publish print and multimedia content with accuracy and journalistic integrity. The authors walk through the best-practice reporting, writing and editing processes followed by this elite, global journalistic organization. You'll learn how to work effectively in a highly competitive real-time news environment where every second matters. The book offers expert tips for taking a story from pitch to publication, along with discussion of journalistic principles including fairness, transparency, sourcing, libel, privacy and ethics. The Bloomberg Way describes essential guidelines for producing content for print, broadcast and web audiences. Topics include interviewing techniques, clarity and precision in writing and editing, compelling headlines and leads, the marriage of words and data in stories, effective charts and graphs, how to appear on television, writing for the web, and more. Each topic is accompanied by how-to examples and showcases useful functions from the Bloomberg Terminal. The Bloomberg Way also shows you how to collaborate with colleagues across platforms to report and present stories about: The stock, bond, commodity and currency markets. Companies, including earnings, mergers, debt, product strategy and managementms changes. Economies and their intersection with government and politics. The Bloomberg Way is the definitive book for any journalist or media specialist who needs to know how one of the world's leading news organizations covers news about business, finance and the economy.

Your no-nonsense guide to making sense of Robert's Rules The classic Robert's Rules of Order has a proven track record of helping membership groups apply codes of conduct to serve as a parliamentary authority within a given assembly. Unfortunately, when read on its own, it can prove to be unclear and hard to follow for many organizations—and that's where this friendly guide comes in. This new edition of Robert's Rules For Dummies demystifies the often-confusing rules of parliamentary procedure in clear, simple language and shows you how to apply them within your organization in a practical and effective way. From procedures for proper nominations to handling elections and ballots, from conducting meetings online to voting by mail and email—and everything in between—this hands-on, plain-English guide makes it easier to apply the information in the most recent version of the rules handbook so you and your organization can start benefiting from it today. Contains updated content that conforms to changes in business meetings, including special rules for making group decisions in both real-time and non-real-time environments Covers new timesaving tips to make meetings more efficient in a world where everyone is pressed for time Provides sample agendas, minutes, scripts, and more Includes interactive online material for readers on the go If you want to keep meetings organized, efficient, and on track, Robert's Rules For Dummies has you covered.

Эта книга – ваш главный помощник в сложных вопросах воспитания детей. В ней собран материал, касающийся проблем дошкольного и школьного возраста; понимания и формирования характера ребенка; природных и биологических особенностей; налаживания отношений с детьми, нарушающими всяческие нормы. Вы найдете здесь ответы на многие вопросы, получите информацию, позволяющую найти выход из тупиковых ситуаций, а главное, научитесь лучше понимать своих детей.

В справочнике представлены аналитико-информационные статьи о научном наследии выдающихся отечественных языковедов, внесших огромный вклад в историографию лингвистики, разработку проблем структурной организации языка, его исторического развития и функционирования. Представлены различные парадигмы языкознания, с позиций и в рамках которых ведущие специалисты в области различных частных филологий проводили свои исследования по важнейшим проблемам лингвистической науки. Данное издание посвящено памяти исследователя русской лингвистической школы, бессменного руководителя на протяжении многих лет сектора «Языкознание» ИНИОН РАН, профессора, доктора филологических наук Федора Михайловича Березина.

Данная книга будет полезна для изучения студентам, аспирантам, режиссерских и искусствоведческих факультетов, всем киноманам, сомелье, сотрудникам алкогольной промышленности, потребителям.

«Словарь древнерусских личных собственных имен» составлен крупнейшим специалистом по исторической антропонимии в дореволюционной России Н. М. Тупиковым (1869—1900). Это не только самый фундаментальный на сегодняшний день научный труд, посвященный русскому нехристианскому именослову, но и приглашение к дальнейшим наблюдениям и исследованиям.

В Справочнике представлены актуальные виды норм культуры речи: акцентологические, произносительные, лексические, морфологические, синтаксические. Материал подан в форме блоков: теоретическая часть сжата до уровня «справок», нормы представлены в форме схем, таблиц, тезисов, перечней слов.

В справочнике представлены все основные орфографические и пунктуационные правила и исключения. Многочисленные закономерности русского правописания скомпонованы в блоки, что значительно упрощает поиск нужных правил. В каждом блоке показаны базовые правила, затем перечислены трудности его применения и пути преодоления названных трудностей. Блоки сопровождаются очерками «лингвистической переменки», в которых рассказывается об интересных языковых фактах, связанных с правописанием и закономерностями постановки знаков препинания. Материалы справочника предназначены для студентов юридических вузов, но могут быть полезны любому, небезразличному к родному языку и желающему повысить свою грамотность читателю.

Все мы, без сомнения, современные, здравомыслящие, морально подкованные и ни в сон, ни в чох не верующие люди, или если верующие, то во что-то очень правильное, столь же праведное и истинно верное. Но… как быть, если наша вера подвергается сомнению и искушению со стороны казалось бы самых обыденных вещей? Верить ли нам в ветхозаветные поверья и приметы или напрочь отринуть их? Заселяться ли в 13-й номер? Лететь ли в самолёте, если рейс приходится на пятницу 13-е? Продолжать ли поездку, если дорогу пересекает чёрная кошка? На все эти сложные (или очень простые), давно назревшие (или пустяшные) и весьма актуальные (или не очень), но очень интересные темы попробует вам ответит эта книга, которую вы прочитаете с истинным удовольствием.